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More young adults living with parents

From left: Samantha Mochamer, 20, Shaun, 18, Dan,

Photo credit: Chris Ware | From left: Samantha Mochamer, 20, Shaun, 18, Dan, 23, Timothy, Pam, and Carrie Gillen, 22, all live in the Gillen's Bohemia home. (Dec. 2, 2011)

Chris Ledford has a plan. If everything goes perfectly, in five years he'll move out of his parents' home. When he's 35.

"That's a perfect-case scenario," said Ledford, a salesman for a golf course supply company with an associate degree in applied science from SUNY Cobleskill.

He will be getting married soon, and his bride-to-be, Virginia Nilsen, 27, will move into his basement apartment...

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